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Vice President Aliu Mahama has called for the early implementation of Africa's broadband infrastructure programme to enable the continent to deploy and exploit Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to facilitate development.

"The expectations of the people on the Continent are continuously growing and it is high time we moved away from the conference declarations and other exhortations to the critical area of implementation," he said.

The Executive Yuan on March 28 passed the next phase of the National Information and Communication Initiative that will run from 2007 to 2011. Over the next five years, the government will spend NT$55.6 billion on continuing to strengthen the nation's information infrastructure in order to enable Taiwan to maintain its leading position in information readiness.

An annual survey conducted by Brown University on online government services has again ranked Taiwan highly as Asian countries continued to dominate the top positions.

Taiwan ranked second in the latest global e-government survey, which was conducted during June and July this year by evaluating 1,782 government Web sites of 198 countries.

The citizens of Taipei will be glad to know that on June 9, their city was deemed the most intelligent community of 2006 by New York-based Intelligent Community Forum.

The city beat other communities that were highly intelligent, though ultimately deemed to be not quite as smart as Taipei. They were Cleveland, Ohio; the Gangnam district of Seoul, Korea; Ichikawa, Japan; Manchester, Great Britain; Tianjin, China; and Waterloo, Canada. These communities and Taipei were the top seven intelligent communities announced by the ICF.

Taipei's WiFly network may be the most visible evidence of Taiwan's technological aspirations, but behind the scenes the government has been working since the 1990's on a far-reaching plan to use the Internet to make it faster and cheaper for bureaucrats to communicate among themselves and with citizens.

The rewards have been substantial. In 2005, 92 percent of businesses and 35 percent of individuals filed their taxes electronically, reducing paperwork and speeding up the payment of returns.

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